This crossword No. 27214 clues and answers were published on Sat 03 Jun 2017 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 27214 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Charlie’s ban on banter, perhaps … : HALFWIT
5-across – … quite the opposite, as good man breaking oath of old : EGGHEAD
9-across – Splendid local offering sent back : REGAL
10-across – Necessity is in recompense : REQUISITE
11-across – One hooked on bars? : CHOCOHOLIC
12-across – In Hyderabad, a legume? : DAL
14-across – Criminal snatches item, getting reprimand : CHASTISEMENT
18-across – Unfortunately, I’m too warty to impress old lover, a turn-off : MOTORWAYEXIT
21-across – Mock paper : RAG
22-across – Unsportingly unsporting? : NOTCRICKET
25-across – In list, people may be found : TRACEABLE
26-across – Total idiot missing introduction : UTTER
27-across – First of patients, moreover, carried by the other make of stretcher : SPANDEX
28-across – In European airport, wine on the counter regulated : ORDERLY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – University out of time on brilliant poet : HORACE
2-down – Many, for example, feeding cat : LEGION
3-down – Plant is expected to hang initially within straggly bower : WILLOWHERB
4-down – Middle of body approximately below top in theory : TORSO
5-down – Lovely flower beds go — is cutting? : EXQUISITE
6-down – Sand in bottle : GRIT
7-down – Villain or devil incarnate, ultimately infernal : EVILDOER
8-down – Neither won nor lost many — chose randomly : DREWLOTS
13-down – Fruits served up with very little bread, flowing only somewhat? : SEMILIQUID
15-down – Opposition on the case, punch the air! : SHADOWBOX
16-down – Holding flag up, Australian natives found in honourable retirement : EMERITUS
17-down – Suffering evidence, magistrate lacking in religious education bamboozled : STIGMATA
19-down – Finally, loveless princess put on right slipper? : SKATER
20-down – Narrative including header in equaliser, getting level : STOREY
23-down – Doctrine was concerned with love, no answer to it : CREDO
24-down – Elephants perhaps identified by the ears, they say? : HERD
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.